Perak Practises Feudal Law

“(BN) should let the rakyat see for themselves in the august chamber of the state assembly whether or not their government has lost support. What’s so difficult about that?

“(But) of course we can go back to the days when the rulers can decide on matters affecting the rakyat and don’t have to explain anything to anyone.

“If that’s where we are and we want to keep it that way, than stop kidding ourselves that we have a workable parliamentary democracy,” quipped Zaid.

Zaid is not the only legal authority to have labeled the Perak political imbroglio as a legal and constitutional crisis.

Other legal experts like the president of the National Human Rights Society (Hakam) Malik Imtiaz and former UN special rapporteur for judicial independence Param Cumaraswamy had also voiced similar sentiments.